marginalized students in virtual education (case study of Shiraz city)

Document Type : research article

Authors

1 Academic staff member, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Kazeroon, Iran

2 Master's student in educational research, Islamic Azad University, Kazeroon branch

Abstract

The purpose of the current research was to investigate the challenges of marginalized students in Shiraz during virtual education the Corona era. The method of qualitative research was based on foundational data theory. The scope of the research was the teachers of the peripheral areas of Shiraz city, and 16 of them were selected as a sample using the purposeful sampling method. The sample size was determined based on the rule of theoretical saturation. Thus, the sampling continued until no new findings emerged. In order to collect data, a semi-structured interview method was used. The validity and reliability of the data was checked and confirmed. Data analysis was done using the systematic method of Strauss and Corbin in three stages of open, selective and central coding. In the open coding phase, 128 concepts were obtained, which were formed in the form of 13 main categories, around a core category called the challenges of virtual education in marginal areas. Physical environment, infrastructural facilities, poverty and the culture of poverty as causal conditions, lack of skills of parents and teachers in the form of background conditions of traditional thinking, non-acceptance of virtual education and marginal view of education as intervening conditions, which can be identified with Strategies such as the growth of virtual knowledge and the promotion of family culture took action to improve the conditions to achieve outcomes such as improving the learning of marginal students and reducing inequalities.

Keywords


  • Abbasi, Fahima; Hijazi, Elaha and Hakimzadeh, Rezvan (2019) Primary school teachers' lived experience of the opportunities and challenges of teaching in the educational network of students (Shad). Teaching Research, 8(3), 1-24 . [In Persian].
  • Abdullah Zadeh Nasim; Boland Hemtan Kivan, Mohamad Amjad (2017). Analysis of women's narrative of gender inequality in the field of education, Welfare and Social Development Quarterly, 36, 175-208 . [In Persian].
  • Aboagye, E., Yawson, J. A., & Appiah, K. N. . (2020). COVID-19 and E-Learning: the Challenges of Students in Tertiary Institutions. Social Education Research, 2(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.37256/ser.212021422
  • Birmipour Ali and Achers Shida (2020). A synthesis of the challenges of transferring from face-to-face education to virtual education in higher education due to the globalization of Covid-19, Theory and Practice in Curriculum, 9(18), 131-176. [In Persian].
  • Cai, R. and Wang, Q.(2020). A Six-Step Online Teaching Method Based on Protocol-Guided Learning during the COVID-19 Epidemic: A Case Study of the First Middle School Teaching Practice in Changyuan City, Available at SSRN:  https://ssrn.com/abstract=3555526or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3555526
  • Danaher, M., Cook, J., & Coombes, P. (2013). Researching education with marginalized communities: Springer
  • Danesh Mehr Hossein and Hedayat Osman (2020). Bordering and Marginalization of Education, Institutional Ethnography of the State of Education in the Border Regions of Kurdistan Province, Iranian Social Issues Two Quarterly, Year 12(2), 11-136. . [In Persian].
  • Dong C., Cao S. , Li H (2020). Chinese: young children`s online during 19-COVID pandemic chine`s parents attitudes and beliefs. children and youth services review, 118,105440
  • Gazley, J. L.; Fiore-Walker, B.(2020)Insights Gained into Marginalized Students Access Challenges During the COVID-19 Academic Response.Journal of Chemical Education, 97 )9 (3391-3395
  • Hojjati Taybeh, Ahmadpour Rozhina and Armand Mohammad (2020). Examining the challenges and problems of virtual education from the point of view of teachers and principals of primary schools, quarterly technology and scholarship in education and training, 1(1), 11-22. . [In Persian].
  • Joncas, J.; Pilote, A.(2021). The Role of Guidance Professionals in Enhancing the Capabilities of Marginalized Students: The Case of Indigenous Women in Canada. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21 )2(405-427
  • Kadkhoda, Saeed, Nasti Zaei Nasser (1400). The relationship between teachers' information literacy and attitudes towards virtual learning during the Corona pandemic, Education Technology, 16(1), 146. [In Persian].
  • Kadri, Reza; Omidfar Sajjad; Samadi Reza and Badli Sajjad (2017). Analysis of the impact of economic and social factors in the formation process of marginal areas and solutions to face this phenomenon with emphasis on empowerment, 3(1), 11-22. [In Persian].
  • Kayani, Siddiqa; Shatrian, Mohsen and Safari, Hamed (2019). Identifying the empowerment factors of the marginal neighborhood, urban planning geography researches, 8(1) 162-199. [In Persian].
  • Kehrizi, Kulthum; Taqwa, Mohammad Reza and Nazari Samira (2019). Literacy survey of first secondary level teachers. Teacher Professional Development, 4(2), 15-27. [In Persian].
  • Kelsey C. T, Dasgupta(2022). From Precollege to Career: Barriers  Facing Historically Marginalized Students and Evidence-Based Solutions
  • McGill, M., & Thompson, A., & DeLyser, L. A., & Snow, E., & Vaval, L., & Wortel-London, S. (2022, August), Practitioner Perspectives of the Impact of COVID-19 on CS Education in High Schools Serving Historically Marginalized Students (Fundamental) Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. https://peer.asee.org/40417
  • Michael Shevlin, Richard Rose(2022) Respecting the Voices of Individuals from Marginalised Communities in Research—“Who Is Listening and Who Isn’t?”
  • Mohammadi, Fardin (2018) Bourdieu's view on the field of education: beyond the conflicting views and functionalism. Education and teaching of the basics of research, , (1) 9, 5-25.
  • Musaibi Maliha, Rezapour Mirsaleh, Yaser and Behjati Ardakani Fatemeh (0 140). Chocolate and the challenges of virtual education during the corona outbreak, Education Research, 27(1), 65-79. [In Persian].
  • Naghdi, Esadaleh and Zare, Sadegh (2012). A study of cultural attitudes and behaviors and marginal women of Saadieh town, Shiraz, Urban Sociological Studies,3. [In Persian].
  • Qanbar Zahi Younes (2013) Identification and ranking of the factors and consequences of the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the marginal areas of Zahedan city, Sistan and Baluchistan master's thesis, Zahedan University
  • Safai Movahed, Saeed and Mohammadi Pouya, Sohrab (2021) Unforeseen curriculum as a consequence of the corona and post-corona era, theory and practice in curriculum, 9(17), 119-154. . [In Persian].
  • Salimi, Samaneh and Fardin Mohammad Ali (2019). The role of virus in virtual education with emphasis on opportunities and challenges, research in virtual education and learning, 8(2), 49-60. . [In Persian].
  • Shekari, Abbas; Ahmad Abadi Arai Najmeh and Fatahi Neda (2013) Border education and training with emphasis on the educational implications of Girou's art in educational developments. Research Journal of Fundamentals of Education, 4(1), 131-150 [In Persian].
  • Taghipour, Kiyomarth; Mahmoudi Firoz, Abbasi, Mikael and Mohammadi Mehri (2019). Evaluating the amount of digital gap in second secondary education of Tabriz city in the conditions of covid-19 and identifying factors affecting it, Education Technology, 16(3), 553-577. . [In Persian].
  • Yadollahi Sara, Tawakoli Elham, Poursalehi Marzieh and Azartash Fatemeh (1400) The problems of online education in the Corona era from the point of view of teachers and parents and providing solutions. 20(3), 145-177 . [In Persian].
  • Zadvali Khajeh, Shahrokh, Zamani, Asghar and Fatemeh Zadoli (2013). Stratification of marginal neighborhoods based on physical-economic indicators of urban poverty (case example: marginal residents of the north of Tabriz city). Geography and Environmental Studies, 11, 63-78. . [In Persian].
  • Zahra Sadeghi and Dehghani Marzieh (1401) and analysis of elementary school teachers' experiences of virtual education during the outbreak of the Corona virus, two quarterly journals of Theory and Practice in Curriculum, 10(19), 162-204. . [In Persian]